[FADCA] TLH VHF Site Coordinates

[Doug Ferrell]

At 09:57 AM 4/30/02 -0400, you wrote:
>OK, have one end of the path, now need the other end.
>More comments below...
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doug Ferrell [mailto:kd4moj@kd4moj.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 08:19 AM
>> To: fadca@mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [FADCA] TLH VHF Site Coordinates
>> 
>> 
>> Morning All:
>> 
>> 	Lost some of my messages during a HD crash... someone 
>> (Russ ???) was
>> looking for the coordinates for the tallahassee tower. here Goes:
>> 
>> 	AGL 173.88 Feet
>Is the where the link antenna will be?
  Yep this is the elevation at the tower

>
>> 	30.29.36
>> 	084.17.01
>This is good.
>
>Is the below a separate tower? if not I am kornfused over the AGL
>data...
>> 	Tower 400 feet
>> 	42 inch tower face
>> 
>> 	our antenna (Decibel 308) @ 389 feet

   Tower is 400 feet tall. Antenna is @ 390 feet. Antenna Decibel Products
DB304 (Exposed Dipole Quasi-Omni Antenna) is 6.1dBd gain side mounted.

{snip}

>What I need are the following to calculate the path between the two sites.
>
>Tower 1
>Lat/Lon (I can get the ground el from the data base if you do
>not have it)
>height of antenna AGL 
>To do link budget you can add the following
>Antenna type
>Antenna gain
>Feed line loss or feed line type and number of feet between radio
>and antenna, along with any cavities/amps or other in line devices
>Also need the number of connector pairs along the path

Total length of 1/2 (soon to be 7/8") hard line is 400 feet, 4 connectors
(.5dBd loss per) and one pass cavity.
60 watts out to hardline.


..DOUG
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